February 18, 2007 at 10:22 am
· Filed under RSS, RSS Tracking, RSS Readers
It was good news that Google started sending subscriber details for their feed reader and interesting to see just what impact this has had on feed subscriber numbers.
Vecosys went from around 500 to over 850, Techcrunch from 160k to over 260k
Good news for Google as it shows they have a huge slice of the reader market.
However, Google say the subscribers are just those using Google Reader, it doesn’t mention those who add your feed to their Google Home Page. So, once again we are just measuring the technosphere and RSS needs more help getting into the lives of normal folk.
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February 16, 2007 at 4:47 pm
· Filed under RSS, RSS Tracking, Wordpress Plugin
As far as we can see today Google started passing over subscriber numbers, which is great news.
Feedfetcher-Google; (+http://www.google.com/feedfetcher.html; 7 subscribers; feed-id=…)
Just a few weeks ago I posted about how some of the big online readers weren’t passing over subscribers and some were using none standard format, well Google is now doing both.
Just need Excite Mix to get onboard.
[update] If you are using the latest version of our wordpress plugin the Google count will already be showing in your stats - no waiting for a new release 
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